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But first, Mr Speaker, I'd like to say something about the horrific situation in Gaza,

where the level of suffering, innocent children being bombed again, is utterly intolerable.

Mr. Speaker, over the weekend we coordinated a response with our allies, as set out in my statement with President Macron and Prime Minister Carney last night.

And I want to put on record today that we're horrified

by the escalation from Israel. We repeat our demand for a ceasefire as the only way to free the

hostages. We repeat our opposition to settlements in the West Bank and we repeat our demand to massively scale up humanitarian assistance into Gaza.

There have been many occasions when there has been irritation from the British government with Benjamin Netanyahu.

But it's hard to think of a time when there was such a level of sheer

exasperation and fury being expressed by Western allies to a friendly nation. But that is where we

are now with the situation in Gaza as thousands of people face hunger.

And then, later on Tuesday afternoon, David Lamy, the Foreign Secretary, went to the House of Commons and said this.

I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new trade, free trade again.

We will be reviewing

cooperation with them under the 2030

bilateral roadmap.

The Netanyahu's

government's actions have made this necessary,

Madam Deputy Speaker. Today,

my honourable friend, the Minister for the Middle East,

is summoning the Israeli ambassadors to the Foreign Office to convey this message.

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